Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PGW in multi-location setup

[Chris Weiss]

My understanding is that "peer server" was a starting point to using
soap or xmlrpc so one server can login and make function calls on a
remote server (see phpgwapi/inc/class.interserver.inc.php), but
currently doesn't do much of anything and is unmaintained.  There are
many functions that are still not xmlrpc enabled so there's still a
lot work to be done to get it do something.  the IPC based sync app is
currently far more advanced, maybe the peer system could be reworked
to make use of that?

On 4/22/05, Christian Rost <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>  > Interesting coincitence... We are working on an offline-client
> concept (and
>  > implementation) at the moment.
>  > This looks quite similar: notebooks have their own phpGW installation,
>  > application data can be synced bidirectional where ACL and user data
> can be
>  > changed only on the master server. Works mostly already for mail,
> contacts
>  > and calendaring, other modules are planned but not implemented. And it's
>  > alpha phase, not beta or stable.
>  >
>  > But the basic requirements sound similar.
>  >
> Well, the requirements are nearly similar. The key is the online/ offline
> connection and which mechanisms you want to use for replication -
> database or
> pgw. Your goal is to run offline clients that replicate their changes
> with the
> master server. Thus you want the database to log the changes and do the
> replication.
> 
> On the other side, we always have an online connection to share data. So
> database replication is an option. It might be easier to sent SQL-Queries
> directly to the local and the remote pgw servers.
> 
> That's the point, where began to focus on the "Peer Server" option in pgw.
> Unfortunately we couldn't find any information yet and therefore have no
> idea
> what kind of functionality "Peer Server" provides and how stable it is. If
> "Peer Server" can be used to query different servers, we're done and don't
> have to worry about database replication.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
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